Strategy & Business Development Consulting Principal

The Consulting Principal role operates independently to guide the Seattle Children’s executive team, board of directors, and workforce to establish and maintain strategic relationships, optimize work structures, and oversee people management.

This role provides strategic vision and thought leadership to service lines and complex system-wide functions, assessing, leading and guiding project teams through critical strategic initiatives, and ensuring alignment with organizational objectives. The position directs and develops system-wide processes that determine the allocation of strategic, financial, capital and human resources across the organization. Consulting principals proactively identify potential challenges, develop mitigation strategies, and navigate both anticipated and unforeseen obstacles.

Key responsibilities include analyzing market trends, fostering strategic partnerships, streamlining operational processes, and presenting data-informed recommendations to senior leadership. The principal may serve as co-chair, facilitator, and/or lead system-wide committees and leadership retreats. The consulting principal collaborates with cross-functional teams to drive multi-year (5-15 years) strategies and tactics to achieve organizational alignment within an anti-racism framework. The principal identifies, evaluates, develops, and implements.

This role demands exceptional analytical, communication, and leadership skills to effectively execute business development and strategic initiatives.

The consulting principal provides direct oversight of resources assigned to them, actively contributing to team development, performance enhancement, and mentorship throughout the employees’ lifecycle.

This role provides feedback and performance-related data to the resource manager.

The consulting principal drives development of AI-enabled solutions to sharpen strategic planning, optimize execution, and accelerate decision-making. This role will champion the deployment of advanced tech tools to actively upskill our consultants, elevating their analytical capabilities and ensuring the firm remains at the forefront of digital innovation.

• Analyze market trends, foster strategic partnerships, streamline operational processes, and present data-informed recommendations to senior leadership.
• Serve as co-chair, facilitator, and/or lead system-wide committees and leadership retreats.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive multi-year strategies and tactics in alignment with an anti-racism framework.
• Identify, evaluate, develop, and implement strategies.
• Provide direct oversight of assigned resources, contributing to team development, performance enhancement, and mentorship.
• Provide feedback and performance-related data to the resource manager.
• Drive development of AI-enabled solutions to enhance strategic planning, execution, and decision-making.

• Bachelor’s Degree in health administration, business administration, healthcare, science-related field, or other relevant area.
• Minimum ten years in consulting, strategic planning, business development, project leadership in healthcare or related industries.
• Minimum eight years working in a complex healthcare setting in a leadership/management role.
• Demonstrated successful experience working with executive team, third-party providers, governmental agencies, health plans, external vendors, consultants and other purchased services.
• Experience leading a large project team on complex and/or highly unusual projects (budget, impact or time); full cycle from initiation to project close.
• Proven track record of project completion through use of methodologies, including project and time management, team development and status reporting.

• Master’s degree in healthcare administration, business administration or healthcare related field.
• Twelve years progressively responsible experience in strategic planning, business development or project management.
• Vast working knowledge and expertise in leading complex change management in an multifaceted organizational setting.
• General knowledge of Lean, Six Sigma, CPI and or Kaizen.
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